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 U.S. NEWSThursday 28 January 2016

American Living:

Few neighborhoods affordable, walkable with good schools

                                                                                                                            live and the homes actu-     schools. But a rising em-
                                                                                                                                                         phasis on walkability re-
                                                                                                                            ally available to them.      flects a generational shift.
                                                                                                                                                         Compared with older gen-
                                                                                                                            “Cities have not kept up     erations, millennials, ages
                                                                                                                                                         18 to 34, disproportionate-
                                                                                                                            with consumer tastes,”       ly prefer walking, accord-
                                                                                                                                                         ing to a survey released in
                                                                                                                            said Nela Richardson, Red-   July by the National Asso-
                                                                                                                                                         ciation of Realtors and the
                                                                                                                            fin’s chief economist.       Transportation Research
                                                                                                                                                         and Education Center at
                                                                                                                            The analysis examined 170    Portland State University.
                                                                                                                                                         Nearly a third of millenni-
                                                                                                                            neighborhoods in 20 cit-     als commute to work or
                                                                                                                                                         school by foot, compared
                                                                                                                            ies, comparing home sales    with 13 percent for the
                                                                                                                                                         post-World War II baby
                                                                                                                            and income data with         boom generation.
                                                                                                                                                         The popularity of walkable
                                                                                                                            rankings from the orga-      neighborhoods has led to
                                                                                                                                                         higher prices for certain
                                                                                                                            nizations Walk Score and     residential and commer-
                                                                                                                                                         cial real estate. A 2012 re-
                                                                                                                            GreatSchools. Some cities,   port by researchers at the
                                                                                                                                                         Brookings Institution found
                                                                                                                            such as Baltimore, Boston    higher retail sales and
                                                                                                                                                         home values per square
                                                                                                                            and Philadelphia, con-       foot in the most walkable
                                                                                                                                                         neighborhoods in Wash-
                                                                                                                            tained balanced neigh-       ington D.C.q

                                                                                                                            borhoods — where people

                                                                                                                            of different income classes

                                                                                                                            could afford to live — but

                                                                                                                            their schools performed

                                                                                                                            poorly.

                                                                                                                            Others, such as Phoenix,

People view the Seattle skyline from the top of the Space Needle in Seattle. Across the country,                            San Antonio and Colum-
just 14 percent of neighborhoods manage to be at once affordably priced, walkable and near
decent schools. And many of those neighborhoods exist in only two cities: Washington and Se-                                bus, Ohio, enjoy above-
attle, according to a new analysis released Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016, by the real estate broker-
age Redfin.                                                                                                                 average neighborhood

                                                                                       (Jordan Stead/seattlepi.com via AP)  schools. But their commu-

                                                                                                                            nities pretty much require

                                                                                                                            cars for doing basic er-

JOSH BOAK                      and shopping, just steps        and near decent schools.                                     rands.
AP Economics Writer            from their row houses and       And many of those neigh-
WASHINGTON (AP) — Few          condo buildings. Home val-      borhoods exist in only two                                   Homebuyers have long
neighborhoods can match        ues are reasonable relative     cities: Washington and Se-
the perks of Adams Morgan      to neighborhood incomes.        attle, according to  a new                                   sought   high-quality
in Washington, D.C. — a re-    And in general, the area        analysis  released Wednes-
ality that reflects a broader  schools rate as better than     day by the real estate bro-
problem for the U.S. hous-     average nationally.             kerage Redfin.
ing market.                    Across the country, just 14     The findings suggest a sub-
Residents of Adams Mor-        percent of neighborhoods        stantial mismatch between
gan enjoy a bevy of bars,      manage to be at once af-        the neighborhoods where
restaurants, exercise studios  fordably priced, walkable       people say they want to

Challenger disaster:

Christa McAuliffe’s students go on to teach 

KATHY McCORMACK                mock trials in class. Hickey    ance counselors in the 30
Associated Press               remembers how person-           years since they and other
CONCORD, New Hampshire         able she was, and how she       students of all ages nation-
(AP) — Thirty years after the  shared her enthusiasm and       wide watched with disbe-
Concord High School class      experiences when she was        lief and horror as the shuttle
of ‘86 watched social stud-    in the running to be the first  broke apart 73 seconds af-
ies teacher Christa McAu-      teacher in space. Hickey,       ter liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986,
liffe and six astronauts per-  now a junior high physical      becoming a generational
ish when the space shuttle     education teacher in Bra-       touchstone.
Challenger exploded on         denton, Florida, just knew      “I try to be very mind-
live TV, a number of them      McAuliffe would be picked       ful,” says Joanne Walton,
have gone into teaching        from more than 11,000 ap-       who teaches grades four
— and some wonder if,          plicants.                       through six in Fairfax, Virgin-
indirectly, the tragedy af-    “As a teacher now, I know       ia. She says she sometimes
fected them enough that        that I want to show respect     goes through a “What
they wanted to make a dif-     and show my students that       would Christa do?” mantra
ference, as she did.           I care,” Hickey says. “I can    in her teaching.
One of them, Tammy Hick-       say to emulate how she          “She knew that teaching
ey, didn’t like social stud-   was, would be a service to      was way more than just
ies at all, but she enjoyed    these kids for sure.”           imparting information and
McAuliffe’s law class.         Hickey joins a number of        that it was really important
McAuliffe took Hickey and      members of the class of         to know students,” Walton
fellow students to court-      ‘86 in Concord who be-          says.
rooms and conducted            came teachers and guid-         Holly Merrow, a math
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